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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not…
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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in…
— Richard Branson
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number…
— Joshua Slocum
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I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.
— George Carlin
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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
— Annie Besant
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It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as…
— Carl Sandburg
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a…
— Albert Einstein
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I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found…
— Ryan Kwanten
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